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Staufen Summit Cairn – Emperor's Temple, Eppstein loop from Kelkheim (Taunus)

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Staufen Summit Cairn – Emperor's Temple, Eppstein loop from Kelkheim (Taunus)

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Staufen Summit Cairn – Emperor's Temple, Eppstein loop from Kelkheim (Taunus)

03:42

12.4km

400m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 29, 2026

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Start point

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3.16 km

Pavilion near Großer Mannstein

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Refuge with resting place, the weather is not always as fantastic as this weekend

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3.39 km

Staufen Summit Cairn

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Not much to see other than the foundation of a shelter? and many stones.

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4.47 km

From the castle town of Eppstein, high up on the slope of the Staufen, you can see a classic temple like from the time of the ancient Greeks. Those who take the steep path up to have a closer look will be rewarded with a fantastic view. The Große Mannstein is located very close by and there is a restaurant right next to the Imperial Temple, from whose terrace you can also enjoy the view. Be careful on the descent. The road is narrow, steep and in the hard-to-see curves a car can come towards you if you are not expecting it.

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4.69 km

View of Eppstein from Mendelssohn Rock

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Nice place even without a memorial stone

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4.74 km

View of Eppstein from the rocky outcrop

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Here you have a wonderful view over Eppstein.

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7.19 km

Walterstein and Hasenberg trails near Lorsbach

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The most striking, most interesting part of the hiking trails are the stone steps of the rocks on the Hasenberg.

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7.71 km

View of the Lorsbach Valley

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Better to go the upper way

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11.1 km

Zauberwald Kelkheim (Fairy Tale Forest)

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As the Taunus Nachrichten wrote so beautifully in 2017:
In the last few weeks and months, maybe even years, some strollers have rubbed their eyes - a piece of forest on the Gundelhardt between the forester's house and the inn has become a fairytale forest, a magical forest. The magicians have their origins in the Villa Kunterbunt on Frankfurter Straße with Silke Offermann, who annually gathers a lively crowd of boys and girls here in the first week of the big vacation to experience and create art in nature. But not to be confused: a few meters further on there is also paint on wood. Perhaps they were foresters, not the magic forest children of Villa Kunterbunt, who worked here, but the foresters who marked their harvest with numbers and lines. Or is this also a fairy tale?
Source: taunus-nachrichten.de/kelkheim/aktuelles/kelkheim/zauberland-%E2%80%93-maerchenwald-gundelhardt-id40960.html

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12.4 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.17 km

1.88 km

1.21 km

121 m

Surfaces

4.49 km

3.46 km

3.12 km

1.16 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (430 m)

Lowest point (170 m)

Weather

Wednesday 1 July

29°C

13°C

31 %

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Staufen Summit Cairn – Emperor's Temple, Eppstein loop from Kelkheim (Taunus)

Pavilion near Großer Mannstein

Staufen Summit Cairn

Emperor's Temple, Eppstein

View of Eppstein from Mendelssohn Rock

View of Eppstein from the rocky outcrop

Walterstein and Hasenberg trails near Lorsbach

View of the Lorsbach Valley

Zauberwald Kelkheim (Fairy Tale Forest)

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